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[amibroker] Re: Pentium 4 2.66 GHz vs. AMD Athlon 1.8 GHz, question about speed



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thanks for your help. I will try it.

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Tomasz Janeczko" <amibroker@xxxx> 
wrote:
> Ed,
> 
> Run some benchmark on both your machines to find real speed.
> Sometimes faster CPU clock does not mean faster machine.
> Especially athlons are faster than equally clocked pentiums 4s.
> 
> Most probably the reason is not CPU speed but disk speed.
> 
> In order to verify this you may try to run some long optimization
> on SINGLE stock on both machines and compare times.
> 
> In this case the hard disk speed would not account into the timing.
> 
> If single-stock optimization runs faster on your notebook than
> on your desktop it means that you have hard-disk speed problem.
> 
> If single-stock optimization runs slower on your notebook
> than on your desktop it means that this is CPU-speed problem.
> 
> If you find that this is hard-disk speed problem then
> adding more RAM and increasing in-memory cache setting would help.
> 
> If this is CPU-speed problem then adding more RAM would have
> minimal impact.
> 
> Best regards,
> Tomasz Janeczko
> amibroker.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ed2000nl" <empottasch@xxxx>
> To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 5:16 PM
> Subject: [amibroker] Re: Pentium 4 2.66 GHz vs. AMD Athlon 1.8 GHz, 
question about speed
> 
> 
> thanks for the replies sofar.
> 
> I always use the AC power so that should give me full functionality.
> It seems to me something else could be changed. Don't know what
> though ...
> 
> regards, Ed
> 
> 
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, -= Chris ß =- <baudecb1@xxxx> 
wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 08:40:10 -0000, Edward wrote:
> >
> > > The Toshiba [notebook with a 2.66GHz processor and 256 MB DDR
> RAM]
> > > is slower than slow when I load Amibroker and do  some scans. 
The
> > > desktop [AMD Athlon 1800+, 512 MB RAM] seems to work fine.
> >
> > Read the manual, you may have a two step processor. If you boot 
off
> > the battery, you may be running at a slower speed, unless 
configured
> > in the BIOS.
> >
> > > My question: if I add 512 MB to the notebook would that do any
> good.
> > > Could there be another problem? Seems to me 256 MB should be
> enough.
> >
> > Yes it will definitely help, but you may need to do some tweaking.
> You
> > may need to also defragment the disk.
> >
> > -= Chris ß =-
> > _______________________________________________________
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